-Many more (including some great caricatures) at la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo [link]Rogelio Naranjo at Wikipedia (en español) [link]Qué caso tiene at WorldCat [link] at OpenLibrary [link]

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Nexos is a monthly cultural magazine published in Mexico City. The magazine was started in 1978, and is not related to the South American Nexos Magazine published by American Airlines. Following are some visual works from the first several issues that I found. Unfortunately, I have no information on the artists. (And once again, thank you to my beautiful graduating gf for the below translations.)

EDIT: huge thanks to Borr for identifying Rogelio Naranjo as the artist of many of the below illustrations.

"It was founded in 1978 by historian Enrique Florescano, with the idea of presenting segments of society, science, and literature in a publication that would think about and consider public life, and criticize the society and politics of Mexico. Since then, Nexus has followed the fundamental transformation of the country. During thirty years, its pages have fostered intellectual and academic debate, documenting the precariousness of the state of the Right, economic stagnation, and poverty and inequities, among other obstacles of change. As a magazine that advocates ideological diversity, Nexos has encouraged and stimulated democratic reform which makes us think that the Mexico of 1978 may have occurred in another country." -translated from the Nexos Group Facebook page

"Nexus desires to be what its name announces: a place of intersection and connections, a point of links for experiences and disciplines that specialization tends to segregate, and even oppose. It aspires to be a forum where problems of science and technology, economic and social research, literary essays, and historical and contemporary politics are expressed." -from Issue number 1, January 1978.

No. 2, Feb 1978 Detail

No. 2, Feb 1978, by Rogelio Naranjo

No. 4, April 1978

No. 6, June 1978

by Rogelio Naranjo

by Rogelio Naranjo

by Rogelio Naranjo

"I will only judge on personality and talent," by Rogelio Naranjo

by Rogelio Naranjo

Nexos website [link]Image gallery of recent issues on their website [link]Nexos Facebook group page [link]more works are posted on my flickr page [link]

All images from the International Exhibition of Calligraphy's website [link]Russia's National Union of Calligraphers [link]BibliOdyssey's post from the same exhibition [link]More calligraphy at BibliOdyssey [link]A post on the exhibition at 79 Ideas [link]The Blog Notes: A Calligraphic Journal [link]Many great calligraphy links at Omniglot [link]

Joints for special install, at the Alvin Lustig exhibition at the A-D Gallery, 1949

Alvin Lustig's Office(?), 1951

Alvin Lustig, 1945-The fantastic Alvin Lustig website [link]The Alvin & Elaine Lustig Design flickr pool [link]Articles & Texticles has a great entry on Mr. Lustig, from which several of the above images are from [link]More of Lustig's works at the Smithsonian's collection [link]Great bio and more works at AIGA [link]More works at Dr. Leslie's project [link]Books on/of Alvin Lustig's works at worldcat [link]